Elizabeth Mary Wright epub Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore (Classic Reprint)

Content CHAPTER VARCHAIC LITERARY WORDS IN THE DIALECTS PACKS Old words from early literature surviving in the dialects .36-37 Substantives 37-43 Adjectives 43-46 Verbs ... 47-53 Archaic words from the Authorized Version of theB ible .53-54 Archaic words from Shakespeare .. 54-61 Dialect words in Johnson sD ictionary .. .61-67 Dialect words supply meanings to difficult forms in Old and Middle English literature .. .... 67-71 Old words and forms preserved in surnames .. v; 72-76 CHAPTER VI ARCHAIC MEANINGS AND FORMS IN THE DIALECTS Old meanings of standard English words surviving in the dialects .. 77-84 Historical forms surviving in the dialects .... 84-86 Old grammatical distinctions preserved in the dialects .. 87-89 Regular forms in the dialects compared with irregularities in standard English .90-91 Doublets, such as :challenge beside the dialect form callenge, c. .. .; .92-94 Variants due to Scandinavian borrowings .. .. 94-95 CHAPTER VII FOREIGN LOAN-WORDS French loan-words. .. .. .- .. .96-102 Scandinavian loan-words .103-104 Celtic loan-words .. .105-106 Latin, and Dutch loan-words. .. .. .107-108 Poetical and learned words in the dialects .... 108-109 CHAPTER VIII LITERARY WORDS WITH DIALECT MEANINGS Quotations illustrating the meanings given in the dialects to literary words 110-118 Dialect words alike in form to existing literary words, but differentia meaning and origin, e.g. damsel, a dauisou, c.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enha